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To
be
accounted
a
child
of
God
a
groat
ble
Jtkg.
5
07
Dock:
7
hat
it
is
agreat biding
not only
to
be.
Gods
childress
but
to
wall,
fs as
to
convince
all with
whom we
live,
that
we
are
the
children
of
God,
fo
as in
their
confciences
they
(hall
on
us
to
be
Gods
children,
they
-fall
callus
Jo.
It
was
a
great part of the
glory
of
Chia
himfelfe, not
only
to be the Son
of
God,
but to
be
declared
to be
the
Son
of
God:
Rors:
i
.
4
And
declared
to be
the
Son
of
god with
power,
according
to
the
fpirit
of hol,refr, by
the
refurreftion
from thedead. He
was
the
Son
of
God,
that
was
glory, and he
was declared
to be
the
Son
of
God,
that
was
a
ffecial part
of
his
glory likewife, and
fo
it
is a
-great
addition
of
glory.to be one
that
fhaí1
be
called
the
Son
of
God,
Chrift
did lay much upon
that, that
the
world
might
know
that
God
had feat him, often
he (peaks
of that
:
Why
was
it
not
enough
O bleffed
Saviour
that thou
thy
felf didft
know
that the Father
fair
thee,
and
the Father
knew
he
Pent
thee
?
No,
he would
have
the
world
to
know
that
the
Father
had
fent him
:
and
is
i
c
that
that
the
Saints
mould prize
asa great
bleffing
of
God,thac
even the world fhould
know
the relation that they
have
to
Cod, That
they
are the children
of
God:
They.
fl
all
be
called
fo,for
by
walking
fo
as
that men
íilall
be forced to acknowledg
them to
be
Gods children.
Hereby
Firft, There
comes
a
great deale of
glory
CO
themfeldes,
they are
honoured
in
the
very confciences of men
----
--
Yea.Secondly, Hereby
their Father
is
glorified when
their
lives (hall hold forth whole
they are.
Yea
by
this
their
profefíïon is
glorified
:
and
the mouths
of wicked
'men are
ftopt by this
means; Mens consciences are
convinced
;
There's
much
good done
by
this
:
Such
as
have
not only
grace,
but
manifeft it
to
the
convtc`tion
of
others,they
are
of great
ufe
in
the
places where they live
:
Nay
you
fhaÍ1
have
the wickedeft
and
vileft
fay,
were
they
all
but
tho
a,
then
I
could
have good
thoughts of
them,
then
we
could nor
tell
what
to
fay
againll
them;
()they
wohld be ready to
hear-
ken
to
any
thing
that's faid,
when
as
there
is a
converfalton
fo
as is
convincing
before them
:
It
will be
a
meanes
to
reffraine
their
Mallice againft
others
when they fee
that
foie
at leafl walk fo
as
manifefi
nothing but
the Image
of
God;'
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